The possibilities are so intriguing to me that on Wednesday I sent a tweet to Evan Williams asking for his input: "primomedia@ev Renay San Miguel here with TechNewsWorld. For this week's column: would you consider selling to a media co. that owns...

Renay, I've been working on this at every angle since our chat and doubly since receiving your letter of assignment. We've also been working feverishly for the past several weeks to be sure that all the complimentary press credentials we've allotted...

Visions of typing endless lines of "all work and no play makes Renay a dull boy" also figured into my thinking, I admit. So I decided to use Wasserman's excellent column, with its recommendations for new editorial rules of the road, as a...

The late British singer-songwriter Nick Drake's "From the Morning" lulls you into accepting all this as just another day in the U.S. right before the voice-over announcer brings us to the point with the (ahem) blanket statement: "AT&T covers 97 percent of all Americans." Even the ones using iPhones in San ...

Yet this is all a part of the continuing storyline that has AT&T blaming iPhone users for all the data they hog on the devices, hence the problems with dropped calls in San Francisco, New York and other areas. It's prompted a...

But then last weekend the Gizmodo editor who wrote about the prototype iPhone and conducted the video breakdown of it came home to find San Mateo County law enforcement officials raiding his home and confiscating his computers. They had broken in the door...

Unless we've missed something in the technosphere, has Apple officially tried to trademark "Pad?" Is there an obligatory joke to be made about a forthcoming Apple brand of feminine hygeine products? And if Apple has taken the moral high ground with adult content on its iPhone, is any of that going to roll downhill soon for users of iPods, iPod touches, iMacs and MacBooks? This may come as a slight shock to those using Apple products in its home court: the San ...

His pointed, poison-pixel work for the San Francisco Chronicle 's site, SFGate.com , brought him the honor. The jury said "his biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary."

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

TechNewsWorld columnist Renay San Miguel started his journalism career with his hometown newspaper in Texas in 1979. He moved to television in 1985, anchoring, producing and reporting in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco before joining CNBC as a technology correspondent from 1997...

... been another eventful week in the continuing original drama, "The Death of Journalism As We Knew It." Our story so far: Near the beaches of San Diego, the leadership of the Associated Press drew a line in the sand Monday by announcing...